Queer 1950s

Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

By: Heike Bauer (Editor), Matt Cook (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This collection brings together scholars from across the humanities in a fresh examination of queer lives, cultures and thought in the first full post-war decade. Through explorations of sexology, literature, film, oral testimony, newspapers and court records it nuances understandings of the period, and makes a case for the particularity of queer lives in different national contexts -- from Finland to New Zealand, the UK to the USA - whilst also marking the transnational movement of people and ideas. The collection rethinks perceptions of the 1950s, traces genealogies of sexual thought in that decade, and pinpoints some of its legacies. In so doing, it explores the utility of queer theoretical approaches and asks how far they can help us to unpick queer lives, relationships and networks in the past.

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List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years	p. 1
Representing
The Long 1950s as Radical In-Between: The Photography of Herbert Tobias	p. 13
Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema	p. 29
Love 'Off the Rails' or 'Over the Teacups'? Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s British Popular Press	p. 41
Living
'Someone to Love': Teen Girls' Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States	p. 61
Cross-Generational Relationships before 'the Lesbian': Female Same-Sex Sexuality in 1950s Rural Finland	p. 77
Moral Panic or Critical Mass? The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand	p. 94
Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic	p. 115
Thinking
Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s	p. 133
'Who Is She?' Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s	p. 150
Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain	p. 167
Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 207
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